Crystal Egli

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Having grow up in rural Vermont, Crystal Egli has always been an avid outdoor recreator. She grew up hiking, biking, camping, boating and both water and snow skiing. After attending film school at Emerson College, she pursued a career in the film industry in Los Angeles. It only took two weeks to realize that wasn't the place for her and ten more years to leave. Crystal ended up moving to Colorado and working for Colorado Parks and Wildlife as a videographer and a few years ago coworkers convinced her to take up hunting. Not only is she now an enthusiastic hunter, Crystal has become a Hunter Education Instructor as well as a mentor to a novice young woman.

In 2019, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) awarded Crystal the Stephen Kellert award for "outstanding service in advancing connections between humans and the natural world to all people in a diverse and inclusive manner".

In 2020, Crystal left Colorado Parks and Wildlife to pursue working on Inclusive Journeys full time as well as embark on a tandem career as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity consultant, trainer and keynote speaker.

Bio #2

Crystal Egli’s speaking career began after achieving unexpected success from the YouTube series My First Big Game Hunt. This 16 part “how-to-hunt” series featured Egli, a female, millennial of color who was terrified of firearms, spending well over a year learning how to hunt big game. The overnight success of the series has been attributed to how Egli presents herself—vulnerable, silly, and unapologetically unskilled—a stark contrast when compared with the typical “how-to-hunt” YouTuber. Egli won a national award from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies for this series, and was quickly sought after by other major conservation organizations to deliver presentations and plenary speeches on the topic of Diversity and Inclusion in Hunting, as well as the outdoors as a whole.

Having grown up in rural Vermont, Crystal Egli has always been an avid outdoor recreator. She grew up hiking, biking, camping, boating, and both water & snow skiing. After attending film school at Emerson College, she pursued a career in the film industry in Los Angeles. It only took Crystal 2 weeks to realize Los Angeles wasn’t the place for her, but 10 years to leave. She ended up moving to Colorado and working for Colorado Parks and Wildlife as a videographer, and a few years ago coworkers convinced Crystal to take up hunting. Not only is she now an enthusiastic hunter-- Crystal has also become a Hunter Education instructor, as well as a mentor to a novice young woman.

In 2019, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) awarded Crystal the Stephen Kellert award for “outstanding service in advancing connections between humans and the natural world to all peoples in a diverse and inclusive manner”.

In 2020, Crystal left Colorado Parks and Wildlife to pursue working on Inclusive Journeys full time, as well as embark on a tandem career as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity consultant, trainer, and keynote speaker.

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Presentations (5)

Project Mountaintop

Building an inclusive marketing strategy without tokenization

Nature Gets It!

Diversity and Inclusion in the Outdoors

Hunting While Black

Being a woman of color in the hunting world

TechniCOLOR

The challenges of being a woman of color in tech

The Economy of Inclusion

A deep dive into the economic lessons of the Negro Motorists’ Travel Guide (a.k.a. the Green Book)

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I was pleased to hire Crystal Egli well before becoming her business partner, when I contracted her to be the keynote speaker at the 2019 annual SUMMIT For Action. I was so impressed with Crystal's ability to connect to the audience and take everyone on an emotional journey. The Summit for Action model brings together a variety of community leaders and key stakeholders to develop shared understanding around the steps needed to inspire and drive social change around Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion issues, which naturally lends to an incredibly diverse audience. This is where Crystal shines-- no matter who you are or the background you come from, she finds a way to connect to every single person in the room. Her impact lasted long after the conclusion of the Summit, something which not only I can attest to, but also the dozens of others who wrote in afterward to submit their praise as well.
Parker McMullen Bushman
CEO
Eco Inclusive
SUMMIT For Action
06/24/2019
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Audience engagement
She's incredible at connecting with every single person in an audience, regardless of subject matter.
Subject matter expertise
Diversity/equity/inclusion
Relevance of talk
She brought her A-game! So many people contacted us afterward to say she shifted their minds about something, or gave them a relevant tool to take back to their work.

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